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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

PHI UK @lhgp.bsky.social recently held its annual meeting over two days, bringing together local authority partners, advocacy partners, and researchers from across the network to share learning, build on each other's experiences, and plan the road ahead. www.phiuk.org/news/lhgp-pa...

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

New blog from @popmhuk.bsky.social Every young person deserves the tools to thrive in health and life. The Empowered Futures project aims to shape future research priorities at the intersections of financial wellbeing, mental health and health equity. Read more > www.phiuk.org/news/blogs/p...

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Prof Nick Wareham and Prof Adam Briggs bring Prevention Research 2026 to a close, addressing how we can better join up the funding landscape to create a sustainable and agile research infrastructure for public health research. #preventionresearch26

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Good morning. It's the first day of Prevention Research 2026 - Connecting research, policy and practice for health equity #preventionresearch26 preventionresearch26.co.uk We're looking forward to seeing everyone - if you're here, come and see us at the PHI UK stand just past the reception desk...

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Just two days to go till earlybird registration closes for Prevention Research 2026 🗓️4-5 March 2026 📍Vox, Birmingham 🪧 Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice for Health Equity preventionresearch26.co.uk 📄 Draft programme now available registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

Come to Prevention Research 2026 - peventionresearch26.co.uk

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

📝New publication from @healthmod.bsky.social Incorporating an equity perspective in systematic reviews of interventions: potential methodological approaches jech.bmj.com/content/earl...

Health inequities are unfair and avoidable differences in health between groups of people, often linked to factors such as income, education, ethnicity, disability or where people live. Reducing these inequities is an important goal for health systems. However, decisions about health services and policies often rely on systematic reviews, and these reviews rarely consider whether interventions work differently for people who experience health inequities.

This paper outlines practical ways to include health equity in all systematic reviews, even when equity is not the primary focus. It explains how reviewers can think about equity when planning a review, assessing who was included in studies, analysing results, and interpreting findings. The aim is to help researchers make better use of existing evidence so that health decisions are fairer and more relevant to everyone.

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

📝New publication from @healthyurbanplaces.bsky.social Reluctant acceptance: Exploring implementation and contextual factors influencing the acceptability of a newly implemented low emission zone in a UK urban setting www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Just over a week left to submit abstracts for #PreventionResearch26 4-5 March 2026 📄Abstracts invited from all corners of the prevention research community 🎤 Oral/poster presentations, Symposia and Workshops 📅 Deadline: 1 October 2025 👉 registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

Prevention Research 2026
preventionresearch26.co.uk
Connecting research, policy and practice for health equity
preventionresearch26@gmai.com linktr.ee/prevention_research_26

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Abstract submission now open for #PreventionResearch26 4-5 March 2026 📄Abstracts invited from all corners of the prevention research community 🎤 Oral/poster presentations, Symposia and Workshops 📅 Deadline: 10 Sept 2025 👉 registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Innovating with people, places and communities - the PHI UK Annual Review 2024-25 is now available. This Review captures the foundations being laid in our first year, and the ways in which our research is already making a difference. Watch a short intro. Links in the reply.

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Local Health and Global Profits @lhgp.bsky.social shares research updates at annual meeting www.phiuk.org/news/local-h... Over 60 researchers and public health professionals join to discuss commercial determinants of health research.

Two speakers stand at a lectern speaking to a room at the LHGP event.

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

We're very pleased to announce that PHI UK and the UKPRP Prevention Research Network will be hosting Prevention Research 2026 in Birmingham, 4-5 March. Connecting research, policy and practice for health equity. Register your interest at preventionresearch26.co.uk #preventionresearch26

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Prevention Research 2026, Birmingham, March 4-5th
preventionresearch26.co.uk
Connecting research, policy and practice for health equity
preventionresearch26@gmail.com
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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🗞️ @popmhuk.bsky.social now have a newsletter - you can sign up here or via the QR code d2a2048a.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAN...

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

New paper from @lhgp.bsky.social researchers: Why didn’t the ‘critical juncture’ of the COVID-19 pandemic lead to the re-integration of public health into urban development policy in England? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #phiuklhgp

Abstract: The links between public health and urban environments emerged as a key narrative during the pandemic. However, despite optimism at the time that this could lead to the re-integration of health in urban development policy there has not been transformative change in this area in England. To understand why not, this article explores COVID-19 as a ‘critical juncture’ for healthy urban development. Critical junctures provide opportunities for change in path-dependent policies if institutional constraints on policy actors are loosened and new ideas and narratives gain support. We interviewed senior Whitehall officials working at the heart of urban development policy in 2021. Drawing on these interviews and analysis of urban development policy documents published in 2023–24, we demonstrate that while there is evidence of increased support amongst policy officials for health which remains visible in recent policy developments, the dominance of institutional agendas and political ideologies that marginalise health policy objectives in city planning in England was not dislodged, limiting the opportunity for radical change. Greater leadership at local and national government levels for preventative health as a cross-sector priority is required to help overcome political and institutional constraints and support incremental change towards policy that will support healthier placemaking.

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We stand at a crossroads in public health. PHI UK Local Health & Global Profits outlines 5 bold priorities for the NHS 10-Year Health Plan to tackle illness & inequality thru prevention, good governance & regulation. #NHS10YearHealthPlan #PopulationHealth #phiuklhgp www.phiuk.org/news/shaping... 🧵

Professor Anna Gilmore at the Department of Public Health; Director and Principle Investigator of LHGP and Co-Director Centre for 21st Century Public Health, University of Bath said:

"the NHS will be unsustainable unless we invest significantly in prevention. As part of this we need to urgently recognise and address the harm caused by commercial products. Currently corporations make excess profits from that harm and we as taxpayers are picking up the costs, meaning corporations have no incentive to change. That needs to change."

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Population Health Improvement UK @phiuk.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

New publication: Community-based interventions on the social determinants of mental health in the UK: an umbrella review. Nia Williams, James B. Kirkbride. Journal of Public Mental Health doi.org/10.1108/JPMH... #phiukpmh

An clipping from the article abstract. Click the link for full text.

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